• Brought on to the client team to help form and shape the venture fund, both on the deal sourcing side and the Board review side.

• Leveraged a combination of structured deal sourcing with relationship development on behalf of the venture fund.

• Created relationships with scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs in order to source promising startups and innovations.

• Organized those relationships into channels for deal flow with regular touchpoints and tracked progress of the startups.

• Further organized the output of all those conversations into a structured deal pipeline.

• Regularly updated pipeline for innovation maturity, deal progression, and likely commercial success. 

• Then, organized Board conversations into purposeful meetings with a clear objective.  Performed deep due diligence and synthesized deal activity into recommendations for the Investment Review Board.

• Drove deals through the investment review process to closure. 

1. A functional Investment Review Board with clear Board objectives

2. A robust deal pipeline by building relationships on behalf of the venture fund

3. The successful closing of four key investments

4. Helped position the university as a serious player in the healthcare innovation ecosystem.

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• Participation in deals closed include:

  • $4.0M Series A in a digital health startup

  • $1.5M Series A in a diagnostics company

  • $1.0M Seed round in a healthcare hardware company

  • $800K Seed investment in a therapeutics venture